Samuel J. Tedesco (February 21, 1915 – August 5, 2003) was an American politician, lawyer, and jurist who was the 96th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1963 to 1966.

He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1940-1942, and then fought in WWII, serving in the European theater in France and Belgium.

Following the war, Tedesco was elected to the Connecticut Senate as a Democrat, and served as Minority Leader.

After leaving the senate in 1953, he defeated incumbent Jasper McLevy to become mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1957.

[4] Tedesco retired as a judge in 1980 He and his wife moved to California in 1989, where he died 14 years later of pneumonia.